PTI
New Delhi
An Assam police team on Tuesday reached the Delhi residence of Congress leader Pawan Khera for questioning him and carried out a search in connection with a case filed by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s wife over his allegations of multiple passports and undeclared assets, officials said.
Speaking with reporters outside the Congress leader’s house, Assam police DCP Debojit Nath said that Khera was not found at his residence. However, he said, a search was carried out and electronic devices were seized.
Some “incriminating material” was found but its details cannot be disclosed at this stage, he said, adding the case had been registered at the Crime Branch Police Station in Guwahati.
Sarma had warned of legal action against Khera, who had in a press conference on Sunday alleged that the Chief Minister’s wife, Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, has multiple passports and foreign property, which were not declared in the CM’s election affidavit.
Sources said that over a dozen police personnel descended on Khera’s house in Nizamuddin in central Delhi at around 11 am and left after around
two hours.
The Congress hit out at Sarma, alleging that he was “disturbed and rattled” due to “imminent” defeat in the April 9 polls and was using state machinery to muzzle the opposition’s voice, but the Chief Minister said the police will hunt down Khera from “pataal (netherworld) to question him on the false documents” that he had used to target his family.
“Pawan Khera had dared the Assam police to arrest him, but he has now run away to Hyderabad,” Sarma said in Sivasagar, Assam, on the sidelines of a poll campaign meeting.
In Delhi, the DCP said that the whereabouts of the Congress leader are currently unknown, but he will be traced.
The team formally informed Delhi police upon arrival, following which a local police team joined in assisting in the proceedings, official sources said.
